What constitutes cruelty in the context of domestic violence?
New Brunswick, Canada
The following excerpt is from M.C. v. T.C., 2010 NBQB 192 (CanLII):
I recognize, of course, that humiliation, harassment and criticism can amount to cruelty. But the evidence here does not satisfy me that the husband’s treatment of his wife in all the circumstances as described crossed that threshold, despite the Petitioner’s evidence that the situation in her mind was intolerable. The husband’s admission in this regard appeared, in my respectful view, contrived. (See: MacDonald v. Wilton, The 2010 Annotated Divorce Act, at pp 67, 69, 70).
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